Three sisters who helped deliver a baby outside a Primark store in Birmingham have told how the mother went from clothes shopping to giving birth in just 'four minutes'.

Emma Sheffield, 25, and her sisters Melissa Sheffield, 27, and Kelly Ryder, 29, were the first to comfort the woman who unexpectedly went into labour in the city's New Street yesterday.

They have told how they saw the shape of the baby's head through the woman's leggings and managed to remove them just in time.

Ms Sheffield said: 'Her face was glowing red. We asked her again if she was OK and when she was due and she told us: "Anytime now".'

Kelly Ryder, 29, Emma Sheffield, 25, and Melissa Sheffield, 28, helped a new mum give birth outside Birmingham's Primark store yesterday. They have now told of the speed of the delivery

All smiles: The mother was wheeled away from the busy street on a trolley after the successful labour

Reliving
the episode, Ms Sheffield added: 'We were talking to a woman doing market
research just outside Primark when we noticed a pregnant lady walking
out of the store looking hot and flustered.

'We
all looked at each other alarmed and then the woman bent over a
bollard. Kelly asked her if she was OK, and she said she wasn't feeling
any pain. But we all thought she looked like she was in labour.'

As they tried to move the pregnant woman into an alleyway, they saw the baby's head emerge beneath her clothes.

Ms Sheffield added: 'Kelly saw the shape of the baby's head in her leggings - the baby had already started to come out.